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(ಠ_ಠ)┌∩┐is an experimental digital performance project that utilizes an array of fake accounts to both provoke and deescalate various kinds of dialog on social media platforms such as Instagram and YouTube ("trolling"), as well as interact with customer service channels and one-way-ticket elements like open complaint forms. Account bios are crafted per intended personality and photos generated through artificial intelligence.

This project addresses a number of issues I'm interested in:

• The use of data-entry forms as creative substrates
• The nature of audience as it relates to fine art
• Internet culture
• Actual Art for art's sake (no documentation, captive audience, or display in a fine art context)
• Relativistic anonymity and the way it highlights motivation and intention
• The link between anxiety relief, pseudo-aggression, and the ego
• The intrinsic absurdity of internet culture and digital persona as a vehicle for social commentary
• Trolling / catfishing as an effective tool for activism and advocacy

(ಠ_ಠ)┌∩┐ is an entirely anonymous experiment without traditional documentation. It stays where it lands, in the digital wild. You are not the viewer unless you happen upon it.